LOCATION/TYPE

NEWS HOME

[ exact phrase in "" • results by date ]

[ Google-powered • results by relevance ]


Archive
RSS

Add NWW headlines to your site (click here)

Get weekly updates

WHAT TO DO
when your community is targeted

RSS

RSS feeds and more

Keep Wind Watch online and independent!

Donate via Paypal

Donate via Stripe

Selected Documents

All Documents

Research Links

Alerts

Press Releases

FAQs

Campaign Material

Photos & Graphics

Videos

Allied Groups

Wind Watch is a registered educational charity, founded in 2005.

News Watch Home

Funding shortfall kills Eastern Ontario's first planned wind turbine 

The first planned wind turbine in Eastern Ontario has been cancelled due to a lack of funding, but the region is still likely to see one in the near future, according to an organizer involved with the project.
Robert Farrell, the co-founder and president of the Galetta Renewable Energy and Environmental Network (GREEN), the co-operative behind the design, says about $300,000 was required for the initial construction costs, but under provincial law, co-operatives have only one year to raise enough money. From November 2005 to November 2006, the co-op had about $141,000 – less than half the required amount.
And Mr. Farrell won’t be able to create a new co-op, because new provincial legislation now stipulates that 50 per cent of a co-op’s output must be distributed to members.
“Well, that would be impossible for us. We would sell (the energy) to the power grid and have no control over who it went to,” which effectively ended the co-op, says Mr. Farrell.
Instead, a new corporation not bound by the same laws as co-ops may be created to raise the money, but the co-op would still exist as an advocacy organization promoting the use of wind power for energy.
“We’re hoping something will rise from the ashes of the co-op and become like a regular corporation,” Mr. Farrell says, adding the planning stages could begin anytime.
Wind turbines, which, depending on their size, can power between 250 and 600 homes, produce electricity when the blades of the device are propelled by wind power.
Henk Huizenga, a member of GREEN’s board of directors, says Canada lags far behind Europe in what he says is a promising source of energy.
“I’m from Holland, and every time I go back there and see the wind turbines, I think, “˜when are we going to have that in Canada?’ “
He said one wind turbine, at a total cost of about $3 million, would provide enough energy to power about 600 homes in the area, and that once the first is built in Eastern Ontario, more will come soon after.
“If one had gone up, we would build another one right next to it, as long as the financing was available,” he said
The area’s councillor, Eli El-Chantiry, says even though there was very little municipal involvement with the project, he hopes it can soon become a reality in his ward.
“It’s disappointing because we thought it was a good time and it was a good idea to put a wind turbine in our area.”

By Robert Walker, Ottawa Citizen

canada.com

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article resides with the author or publisher indicated. As part of its noncommercial educational effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large-scale wind power development to a global audience seeking such information, National Wind Watch endeavors to observe “fair use” as provided for in section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law and similar “fair dealing” provisions of the copyright laws of other nations. Send requests to excerpt, general inquiries, and comments via e-mail.

Wind Watch relies entirely
on User Funding
   Donate via Paypal
(via Paypal)
Donate via Stripe
(via Stripe)

Share:

e-mail X FB LI TG TG Share


News Watch Home

Get the Facts
CONTACT DONATE PRIVACY ABOUT SEARCH
© National Wind Watch, Inc.
Use of copyrighted material adheres to Fair Use.
"Wind Watch" is a registered trademark.

 Follow:

Wind Watch on X Wind Watch on Facebook

Wind Watch on Linked In Wind Watch on Mastodon